Example sentences of "and when [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed to marry her on the understanding that he could bow out if and when something better turned up . |
| 2 | The hours burned by on the green screen , and when they finally flopped in Lucy 's living room , sipping brandy , a key turned in the lock and in came the charmingly dishevelled one and only son . |
| 3 | That they had any cohesion at all was impressive and when they also succeeded in driving through the heart of the French forwards an improbable victory became at least possible . |
| 4 | The Boards were far from innocent , however , and when they later developed a proper accounting system to allocate overheads fairly it was found that there had indeed been some unfair cross-subsidisation to their contracting accounts . |
| 5 | The drama created a desire , a need for knowledge , which was useful to them — and when they later returned to their drama they were far more committed to it . |
| 6 | The Fellows of Magdalen College , Oxford , refused James 's attempt to foist a Catholic President on them in March 1687 ( electing one of their own fellows instead , whom James immediately deposed ) , and when they subsequently refused to accept James 's nomination of Samuel Parker , Bishop of Oxford , the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes was used to deprive twenty-five of them of their fellowships . |
| 7 | They have hunter 's jaws and when they suddenly expose a huge gape , they can be quite alarming if you think you are handling an ordinary , inoffensive worm . |
| 8 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |
| 9 | We take a frozen river for a long way , a bumpy ride that keeps you concentrating , and when we eventually come off it , there is a lone tree that the dogs pull towards despite our efforts . |
| 10 | Speaking of Deano — everyone I talked felt that as we had paid £2.7 million for a centre forward would n't it be nice if hung around near the goal or in the box for that matter instead of running all over the show and when we finally get the ball in the box there 's nobody there . |
| 11 | We went round all the calves , removing the lethal crusts and scrubbing the buds clean , and when we finally drove away we knew that the brief but painful episode of the Billings calves was over . |
| 12 | I found it supremely restful to talk to her , and when we finally parted I told her I hoped we might see each other again some time . |
| 13 | Some tyre levers and allan keys were missing but by driving slowly back I ( or rather we , as I 'd offered some fellow tourists a lift back to town ; what with delays getting started , and then this to-do , I bet they wished they 'd never bothered , it would have been quicker to walk ! — and when we finally did set off again , I accidentally left one of them behind , running along the road behind us waving and shouting ! ) — we , as I say , found most of the missing items . |
| 14 | The ground staff at Edinburgh were very helpful , and when we finally boarded ( in really raw and biting cold and -2 degrees centigrade ) thanked me for having my luggage so clearly labelled as it had helped them get it to the hold doors for immediate removal at Brussels . |
| 15 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 16 | And when we actually introduced it last year , it was too late , |
| 17 | Er you must therefore ask yourselves the question , why is it therefore the government has decided to er re re remove the funding er for this particular project erm never mind they said er we now know how to build fast reactors , look there 's one we 've already built , a prototype we have th the , the er the th the blueprints , the drawings for a full scale version and when we actually need the fast reactors in say the year two thousand and ten or thereabouts , we 'll just get the blueprints out of the filing cabinet and we will build them . |
| 18 | During the period of the Call-slip analysis and book condition survey — that is , between 12 and 24 January 1981 — the second copy of each call-slip submitted to the Issue Counter was stamped by a member of staff with the time and date of its submission , and when it ultimately arrived in the Reading Room , accompanied by the book to which it related , the time and date of its arrival was recorded on it by one of two fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who assisted in the implementation of the Survey . |
| 19 | A force was assembled under John of Gaunt which was to sail for Brittany in May , but its departure was held up until July , and when it eventually set out it made for Calais instead of Brittany . |
| 20 | went missing for about four hours and when it eventually bolted out this hole it run straight up him and curled up to him . |
| 21 | It was insured by the charity organiser Ruth Hilali , and when it apparently disappeared in transit , more than £100,000 was paid by insurers into charity funds at the Worcester branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 22 | Trading Standards however important , and Trading Standards is very important , erm , when you 're getting down to erm , reductions in equipment and uniforms and men , then lives are at risk , it is really a matter of er , er , of , of for our fire fighters that they have the right equipment and the right uniform and when it actually comes down , you ca n't compare that to maybe reductions in Trading Standards . |
| 23 | Well actually I always think , Win always say that the W I runs itself because everyone gets on with things and they do n't need to be told and , and when it actually comes to it no nobody wants to become president or officer . . |
| 24 | This was an era when phrases such as ‘ turning on ’ , ‘ dropping out ’ , and ‘ scoring shit ’ moved into the language ; and when our newly discovered deviants caused an incredible moral panic as wreathed in clouds of incense or cannabis smoke and symbolically clutching well thumbed copies of iconic tomes such as the I Ching , they joined the ‘ hippie trail to Katmandu ’ . |
| 25 | The word ‘ Hecketypecky ’ passed between them , and when I eventually found it — the Rio Jequetepeque — I could hardly believe the spelling . |
| 26 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 27 | In Spain , about the only times when things got put in this much perspective were when Nirvana were actually playing — Madrid was still below-par , frenzy-wise , but a thrilling experience purely because the audience was so enthused by it all — and when I finally interviewed Dave , Chris and Kurt . |
| 28 | That I told Oliver I 'd put them down the waste-disposal and the phone went silent , and when I finally said , ‘ Are you still there ? ’ he just answered , ‘ I love you , ’ and hung up . |
| 29 | The red ooze continued , despite a long session of self-doctoring from the car boot , and when I finally drove away my finger was swathed in the biggest , clumsiest dressing I had ever seen . |
| 30 | Later , Broderick admits that he was drawing on his own feelings about the death of his actor seven years ago , just as his career was taking off ( ‘ He watched everything I did , he was my big influence , and when I finally started to get work , he never got to see it ’ ) . |